Open Source Alternatives to Sanity
A content management system that provides a unified platform for modeling content, automating workflows, and powering applications across web, mobile, and AI agents.
Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Sanity give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 4 open source alternatives to Sanity. The most popular are Payload, TinaCMS and Cockpit CMS. Most use the MIT or AGPL-3.0 license, and 3 offer an official Docker image.
Payload
A Next.js native headless content management system for managing data with TypeScript and automatic type generation.
TinaCMS
A Git based headless content management system providing a GraphQL API and visual editing for Markdown files.
Cockpit CMS
A headless content management system providing flexible content infrastructure via REST and GraphQL APIs.
Marble CMS
A headless content management system for publishing articles, product updates, and changelogs via a REST API.
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